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    Miscellaneous or uncategorized documents relating to the history and functioning of Bronx Community College.

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    American Icons Oral History Collection American Icons is a collaborative project centering music and oral histories by Americans who live in the shadows cast by our national myths and monuments. Whose stories are told, whose erased? American Icons addresses the mythology behind the National Anthem and other outdated commemorative art. We create new, local musical monuments based on oral histories of NYC residents. Student and community residents from Bronx Community College (BCC), the home of the “Hall of Fame of Great Americans,” will share their own experiences learning and working among monuments that fail to reflect America’s diversity. This project addresses the mythology behind the National Anthem and other outdated commemorative art. Questioning and deconstructing nationalistic artifacts from the past, we can create space to spotlight and honor stories of America’s present. We hope this will paint a more representative picture of the community we envision and celebrate in the Bronx. We are grateful to our community partners at the University Height Presbyterian Church for hosting our May 2022 performance. This project is made possible by a 2021 Social Practice CUNY Faculty Fellowship award. Jazmin Ramirez Jazmin Ramirez is a student and former SGA president from Bronx Community College, where she is majoring in Business Administration with a focus on management. Jazmin is a first-generation American whose family is from the Dominican Republic and settled in the Bronx. She is currently a Baruch student studying Operation Management and Consulting, minoring in Communication Studies. Link to the Full Transcript… Renea Bush Renea Bush is an Elder member of University Heights Presbyterian Church, an affiliate of Bronx Presbyterian Church, where she is active in the community and actively engaged in the Friends of Aqueduct Walk, a group that collaborates with Partnership for Parks that seeks to protect, conserve, and engage the community in this public space, located across the street from the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, which is located on the Bronx Community College campus. Link to the Full Transcript… Click here to view finding aid Flier for the In-Person May Event. This past event at University Heights Presbyterian Church, saw the collected oral histories of BCC student and local Bronx community residents. Composers Shawn Chang and Jorell Williams, led by Nathaniel LaNasa and Gregory Feldmann, interweaved them with musical context from America’s past and present. It all culminated in an evening of music that questioned and deconstructed nationalistic artifacts from the past, while creating space that honors stories of America’s present. We hope this will paint a more representative picture of the community we envision and celebrate in the Bronx. by Cynthia Tobar, Nathaniel LaNasa and Gregory Feldmann In collaboration with our narrators Renea Bush and Jazmin Ramirez Music composed by Jorell Williams and Shawn ChangOral histories/Storytelling by Cynthia TobarPerformed by Nathaniel La […] “American Icons Oral History Collection”

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    Coming Full Circle: Practices of Resilience, 2021 Somebody was burning this down and I wanted to find out.– Reverend Jim Fairbanks The Bronx has collectively endured years of adversity and hardship. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, residents faced down the social impact of segregation, privation, and political marginalization. Despite the stagnation of top-down progress, The Bronx remains activated through its decades-long history of mutual aid. Coming Full Circle amplifies the stories of those who survived and built community networks to reverse these harms. Schools, religious institutions, and grassroots organizing joined in tandem to strengthen this resilience. The Bronx Community College Archives teamed up with Photoville and the Friends Of Aqueduct Walk (FOAW) to support Coming Full Circle: Practices of Resilience, a public exhibition featuring Aqueduct Park located across the street from the Bronx Community College campus, to produce a public exhibition with historical and community photos of local Bronx residents who grew up in and around this park. The exhibition was unveiled on December 4 and includes Cynthia’s oral history interview with Reverend Jim Fairbanks, a pastor of the United Church of Christ and long-term Bronx advocate who shared his memories of the neighborhood as well as efforts to preserve and maintain this vital yet overlooked neighborhood green public space for the community. Listen to the short audio clip here. The full-length interviews are processed and made available at the BCC Archives’ Spotify channel. Many thanks to Bronx Community College fellow alumni Jacqueline Johnson-Carmichael who served as the project’s curator and oral history contributor, Pilar Maschi from Partnership for Parks/FOAW, Jasmin Chang from Photoville, and our oral history narrators Renea Bush and Jim Fairbanks. This interview was part of the collaborative exhibit, Coming Full Circle: Practices of Resilience, conducted in partnership with Photoville and Partnership for Parks. Reverend Jim Fairbanks …is a pastor of the United Church of Christ and long-term advocate of the South Bronx. In this interview, Fairbanks describes when he arrived to the Bronx, his activism fighting for affordable housing and how he participated in local social justice campaigns as part of several ecumenical coalitions alongside the community. Link to the Full Transcript… Renea Bush …is a member of University Heights Presbyterian Church and Bronx Presbyterian Churches.   In this interview Renea describes her childhood experiences while growing up in Sedgwick Housing; and the historical surrounding areas of Aqueduct Walk, Morton Playground and Bronx Community College.  Renea shares how her life experiences shaped her role in ministry and how she has become a community advocate for youth and human rights in the Bronx.  Her activism allows her to work with Friends of Aqueduct Walk and other community coalitions. Link to the Full Transcript… click here to view finding aid These and other interviews are now available on our Spotify channel. For more information or questions, please […] “Coming Full Circle: Practices of Resilience, 2021”

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